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Human Connection Award: People & Planet Ocean - 2026

The Human Connection Award: People and Planet Ocean is a celebration of our species being a part of nature, not apart from nature.

Submissions should highlight an individual's connection with the ocean (photographer or subject), whether that be an image of a marine biologist hard at work in the field, an image of an Indigenous person fighting for the protection of their ancestral coastline or any other instance of a person connecting with our blue planet.

 

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Rui Duarte,
1st place

Shin Arunrugstichai,
2nd place

Gergo Rugli,
3rd place